👋 Hello!

I'm @ginatrapani. I build software products for fun and profit. I also like to write about how technology makes our lives better (and worse).

Currently I'm a Partner and Director of Engineering at Postlight, where we build platforms that power web sites, apps, and other digital products for our clients. Need help building something? Get in touch.

Before Postlight, I founded sites and services like Lifehacker (acquired by Univision), Makerbase (acquired by Fog Creek), and ThinkUp. My side projects include Todo.txt, an open source collection of text-based task list apps, and Narrow the Gap, a web site about the gender pay gap.

My writing has been published in The Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, and Wired, among others. Profiles of my work have appeared in venues ranging from The Wall Street Journal to The New York Times. Once upon a time, Fast Company named me one of the Most Influential Women in Technology, and Wired magazine awarded me its prestigious Rave Award.

March 2018

Co-hosted an event with The Knight Foundation at Postlight, where I moderated a panel discussing the role of platforms in encouraging unproductive dynamics between marginalized communities and journalists, with Anil Dash, Manoush Zomorodi, and Olivier Kamanda.

Worked with Automattic's Longreads to launch a Membership Drive with the goal of raising $25,000 to fund new reporting and storytelling projects by mid-November. (November update: Fundraising goal met!)